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PERFECT Arizona, except the logo. Switch it to something else, something stronger, and that's a 10/10.
Buffalo, I'd take the blue jersey and make the white stripes gold. The Sabres love running with a two-color look.
These are awesome. Keep it up.

Make the hemline stripe thicker, at least as thick as each red stripe on the sleeve, and put a full collar on the white. The alt needs to be cannon-centric to make it different enough to be worth doing.
Otherwise, i love it.

Try round it out first. See if that fixes it. The perspective on a third propeller while still keeping that bottom view of the basketball is going to be a nightmare. Plus, you could do a uniform with that long horizontal logo above the numbers instead of a wordmark, and it would look great. I think a two-propeller thing is a much better, much more vintage design. Let's see what can be done to un-snitch this first.

You know, idk that the wings mistake is a problem.
Because you're right, they DO look like wings. I think I thought the same thing initially. I don't know that it's a bad thing to think that, though. The Spirit of St Louis was a plane, the first thought of a fan might be a plane, it's a flying basketball, the idea works either way. It could be one of those "hidden features of logos" that say things we all know that blow away random people (There's an H in the Whalers logo. Whaaaa? The Brewers' old logo makes a glove with an m and b. WHOA! The Spirits of St. Louis logo is a propeller, not a plane. MIND BLOWING! ya know?) Because to do it fully correctly, the ball would have to be far smaller, and you lose the detail there. A third spoke would make the logo fill more vertical space, but it would not be accurate, and that could screw up the forced perspective where you see the St. Louis Arch on the ball.
It's possible that there are some design issues, the little reflection on the right blade where it meets the ball looks like an error, idk if the lines line up as well as they should at the top, idk if the angles are correct on the blade - it looks alright, but the more you look, the more I want to compare lines. Hopefully with enough bumps, someone who knows design really well can nitpick this to perfection.
But I think the logo looks very stoic, corporate-esque (and I mean that in a positive way), and on par with the NBA logos. It fits. It's super simple and effective and has all sorts of layers while looking simple.
A logo this simple, stoic, and hard needs to be balanced with a more whimsical secondary, and if you're working on that, carry on. I think you've got an excellent start.

It's genius. Very simple, very straightforward, and the arch on the bottom of the basketball is friggin genius. Subtle. Fitting. Excellent.
The script is ok. Functional. It works. Nothing super special though.
What I'd like to see is a plane-based secondary logo, that's what's missing here. An actual look at the plane. That's the fun piece you need to make this something really special - that's where you put that ABA whimsy and make this less stoic.

Idk if that would do much.
The gold and orange have this weird blending/clashing problem that just doesn't work well. At distance, they blend, in close, they clash. They're too closely related to work together. The team goes well out of their way to prevent them from touching, and I think you need to do it, too.

I saw the Vegas Golden Knights abbreviation for the first time today. It's awful. VGK
How ugly does that look? And for what reason?
Most teams represent their city. PIT, CHI, BOS.
And only add the team to differentiate. NYR, NYI.
I think about two-word nicknames, Red Wings, Maple Leafs, but even they represent the city: DET, TOR.
The exception? Columbus. CBJ.
As much as I love the Jackets, they're not the model to follow here.
You're the first one to a new city. Vegas. Not even Las Vegas, LV would've been great. But it's not, so it's even easier: VGS VeGaS
It reads naturally. It works seamlessly. You're the only one there right now, own it.
OITGDNHL

Thank you.
It looks good, but it throws the color balance all off, especially on the white. They would've had to add more red to the stripes and that would've gotten more complicated...I'm thinking, despite how much I like the hurricane flags, that Carolina made the right decision.

That I believe! My photoshop is nearly 10 years old and I use it essentially like paint and I find it to be incredibly annoying. I cannot imagine doing it in paint.
You have this done already, so can you try something? What does it look like if you make the "secondary red" into black, so you have the red square flags on black? Should be just a paintbucket tool, and I'm really curious to see if the Canes really did make the correct decision with their sublimation.

And those white gloves were the worst part of the entire uniform. I actually kinda liked the jerseys, I feel they really could've grown on me for a "modern" Detroit. But those gloves ruined it. It looked so goofy and it would go between their forearms blending with the ice and being so flashy that it was distracting.
1 day event or no, bad is bad.

Bass clef. That might be the answer.
Though, I won't lie, looking at it as your avatar picture, it doesn't look all that bad. What if you do it in just blue? Or the just the notes are gold? Or one gold outline around the whole thing, and not each piece?
As for the keystone, why not try and make it self-contained? Everything in the keystone. Make the top of the penguin's head touch the top of the keystone and work your design from there.I think you have some weird angles or the penguin is doing weird contortions, I can't really tell.

Oh man, there is a lot of tremendous ideas in here.
The treble-clef fleur de lis is an amazing idea. But it is too busy. I don't think the music bars work at all. There is no way to simplify that so far that it can be shrunk down well. I think you might have to go with basic shapes instead and make a clef-centric fleur de lis, which would on its own be an incredible idea. Perhaps some other idea will come out of those shapes, but I think you're simply trying to do too much.
Minnesota Wild idea 1 is the best idea, but it creates a very weird effect with reflecting the M and W like that. The eye struggles to settle anywhere. I think it would work if it had no slant on either letter. Idea 2 is more effective, I think, for that reason. It's certainly easier to digest. I like them both.
The Jets logo is the best fauxback I've ever seen. In fact, I think it's better than their 90s logo. Seriously. It's genius. You should run with that. Personally, I like the blue text better, but that could change when it's on a jersey. I think you should pursue a fauxback third jersey based on it and see where that goes.
And the Penguin logo - I don't think the keystone is blasphemy, we all consider ourselves Pennsylvanians, too. Whenever we can claim PA and ignore philly, we approve. I think there are some issues with the penguin itself. It seems oddly shaped. I think the sweeping you do with the shape of the Penguin is also odd, because the shape of the Robopen was it's belly sticking out - or at least a stylized version of it. I think if you mimicked such ideas, maybe not the same style, but a similar idea, you could nail it. I think you should keep playing around there.
Really, these are amazing. Simply amazing. For these to be your first concepts is astounding. Dabble, play around, try different things and see what works and what doesn't.